Choosing the Right Metrics for Monitoring your Application

When it comes to monitoring various applications, it is critical to define the key metrics to monitor, in order to get the precise picture of how your application is performing. That sounds easy enough, but the “simple” idea of defining key metrics is hard to implement in reality, because:

1. The absolute number of metrics may be quite large (i.e. 250+)
2. It can be hard to evaluate the importance of each metric by just looking at their names
3. This process can be extremely time-consuming

Here at Monitis, we’ve spent a lot of time and effort endeavoring to come up with the right metrics for whatever application that needs to be monitored. That’s why when you set up your Monitis account, you don’t have to choose from dozens of metrics for Apache or MySQL.  Instead, our research team has pre-selected the most important metrics for you.
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